2012—2018
Learning Life
Post-College & Working Titles
After college, I worked as a sign maker, a graphic design intern, a design associate, a lead designer, and finally, a creative director. I often washed dishes in the evenings to make ends meet. All the while, I was learning to be a dad to three kids who could easily outsmart me.
A Love Story...
The story goes something like this... at some point nearly ten years ago, while catching pigeons at the Five Points Marta Station, I bumped into a wonderful Mexican lady who was the most beautiful passenger on the train (depending on the train).
Clearly, she was lost and couldn't speak English, but it was just my luck that I'd been speaking it since I was at least eight years old! I pointed at the map and told her where to go, and she asked me to ride with her to ensure she got there safely. Once at her stop, I gave her my number and asked her to dinner.
The Wedding of the Decade
Two years later, on a sweltering furnace-of-an-August day in North Georgia, Fabi and I were married. The location was an abandoned barn that we converted into an abandoned barn with xmas lights, and all of our friends and family sweatily attended (almost ten whole people!). After the wedding, we made a spunky, six-year-old Mexibaby to inherit our crushing debt once we've passed on into that great graphic design gig in the sky.
2019-2024
COVID-19 & Its Aftermath.
Two months before the Covid-19 lockdowns started, I opened a design studio. I named it STäBLER DESIGN STüDIO (Fabi said no to Casa de Gues). It didn't survive The Pandemic.
I was hired by an Environmental Sciences company (which was thriving because of Covid) as an in-house graphic designer. After a few months, I was promoted to management as Creative Director, where I spent the next quarter of my career.
